Angie rides out – PMQs 23rd October 2024

23 OCTOBER 2024 | OPINION Angela Rayner fielded the questions today. Facing her for the Opposition was Sir Oliver Dowden, on his last PMQs stint...

You wanted rage – Glastonbury was the punchline

2 JULY 2025 | OPINION A Glastonbury performer shouted: “death to the IDF” — and the nation collapsed into outrage, denial, and hypocrisy. But this...

Public consent would be endangered by Boris’ four-week delay if the...

15 June 2021 | OPINION On February 22nd, when the UK faced almost 10,000 Covid cases per day and had administered less than 18 million...

A bad day for useful idiots

4 APRIL 2023 | OPINION Today, on 4 April 2023, Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO. This is a very good day for NATO and...

HS2 has caused a stir, but why is it so controversial?

28 June 2021 | ANALYSIS The recent Liberal Democrat by-election victory in Chesham and Amersham sparked headlines. The election was called following the passing of...

Will Sir Keir Starmer make Labour great again? – Tom Pritchard

For the British Labour Party to win a General Election, recent history has shown that the party must move further to the centre and away from the far-left politics it has embraced in recent years, most notably under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.

Starmer’s reshuffle: Reeves frozen out?

2 SEPTEMBER 2025 | OPINION Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced a personnel reshuffle in Number 10. Darren Jones, previously Reeves’ deputy at the Treasury, has...

Could it be time to move away from the left-right spectrum?...

A lot of people think of politics as being left-right. In Britain, this is Labour vs the Tories. In the US, this is usually the Democrats vs the Republicans. In Germany, this is the Social Democrats vs the Christian Democratic Union.

A tough game – PMQs 29 January 2025

29 JANUARY 2025 | NEWS The match opened with Labour’s Damien Egan asking the Prime Minister to oppose means testing of the State Pension and...

Boris, hands off our beers! – Jonathan Eida

10 August 2021 | OPINION Needless to say, it has been a tumultuous year-and-a-half all round for the vast majority of us. Through the exhaustive...